Vinay Gupta
= one of the leading figures of the open design for appropriate technology movement
Bio
"Half Indian, half Scottish, and residing in Iceland, Vinay is an engineer at heart. Whether its software, physical structures, or social structures, the man is a tinkerer at an advanced stage of development. He has developed the self-sufficient Hexayurt, presented mass evacuation strategies to the Red Cross, and worked on policy papers such as Winning the Oil Endgame. Gandhi and Buckminster Fuller are two of Vinay’s heroes." (http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/08/the_th_interview_gupta.php)
Interview
TH: Last question. Do you have somebody who you consider your biggest inspiration?
"Vinay: I sort of alternate between Buckminster Fuller and Mahatma Gandhi. I feel like the core of my work right now is trying integrate Gandhi's political thought with Fuller's engineering. Because the two go together extremely well. You have this kind of personal independence as the heart of Gandhi's philosophy, and then Fuller's technology means that you can be largely self sufficient on a much smaller power budget. On a much smaller economic base. So it's kind of Gandhi's ends with Fuller's means. You put the two together and you get this kind of curry and chips phenomenon. I think there's a lot to that. I think one of the benefits of the globalization of thought is that it's becoming possible to assemble pieces from many different cultures into coherent wholes, and that's very powerful. I think it's going to turn out to be almost like an industrial revolution in its actual impact." (http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/08/the_th_interview_gupta.php)
More Information
- Vinay Gupta on Open Designs for Appropriate Technology
- Vinay Gupta on Ending Poverty With Open Hardware
- Vinay Gupta and Andrew Lamb on the Appropedia Approach
- Vinay Gupta on Changing the Culture of Violence and Speaking Truth to Power
- Vinay Gupta on P2P Infrastructure Theory
- Vinay Gupta on Solving Global Crises through Peer Production
- Vinay Gupta About the Blockchain Technologies as Alternatives for the Incompetence of the State Form
- Vinay Gupta on the Promise of the Blockchain
- Vinay Gupta on the Internet of Agreements
- Michel Bauwens, Smari McCarthy and Vinay Gupta's Impromptu Conversation on P2P Warfare
- Appropedia